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...word that has to be looked up to be appreciated. "Velleity: volition in its weakest form." Rogin applies it proudly and neatly to his man Singer, a magazine writer becalmed somewhere around 40. Although his outlook is "upper-middle-class, Upper West Side...
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? by Gilbert Rogin. 260 pages. Random House...
...mean Singer, the anti-hero of Gilbert Rogin's new comic novel, whose wife peeks out shyly from under the closet door while he ponders what his life, if any, may mean...
...Questioner and answerer resolve themselves into two halves of the Bemused Reader, who finds himself in the bathroom-where Rogin's characters seem to spend a good deal of time -staring into the mirror and mouthing the same word over and over again until it empties of meaning: "Velleity. Velleity. Velleity...
...Lehrich, Biology; Joseph Salem Lelyveld, History and Literature; Keith Merritt Lindgren, Biochemical Sciences; James Robert McCredie, History and Literature; Michael Ned Margolies, Biology; Calvin Cooper Moore, Mathematics;; Robert Anthony Myers, Engineering and Applied Physics; Robert Stephen November, Economics; David Reiss, Psychology; George Nicholas Rogentine, Jr., Biochemical Sciences; Michael Paul Rogin, Government; George Michael Rossman, Engineering and Applied Physics; Richard Lewis Roth, Mathematics; David Savitz, Chemistry; Michael Charles Senturia, Music; Thomas Jack Shankland, Engineering and Applied Physics; Lynn Johnston Taylor, Chemistry and Physics; Marshall Alan Wolf, Chemistry; Michael Wortis, Physics; Richard Philip Zimon, Biology...